Europe Compared by Economy > Innovation > Patent applications, residents per million

DEFINITION: Patent applications, residents. Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention--a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Germany	574.42	2011
2	Finland	306.22	2011
3	Denmark	282.56	2011
4	Austria	255.71	2011
5	United Kingdom	244.5	2011
6	Norway	226.53	2011
7	France	224.18	2011
8	Slovenia	215.76	2010
9	Sweden	212.08	2011
10	Switzerland	201.84	2011
11	Russia	185.33	2011
12	Belarus	182.1	2011
13	Luxembourg	163.98	2011
14	Monaco	161.03	2011
15	Iceland	156.73	2011
16	Netherlands	154.85	2011
17	Italy	144.82	2011
18	Ireland	107.94	2011
19	Poland	100.66	2011
20	Latvia	84.05	2011
21	Czech Republic	74.6	2011
22	Spain	74.28	2011
23	Romania	66.59	2011
24	Hungary	66.39	2011
25	Greece	64.38	2010
26	Ukraine	57.96	2011
27	Belgium	57.57	2011
28	Portugal	54.09	2011
29	Croatia	53.73	2011
30	Turkey	53.18	2011
31	Estonia	46.27	2011
32	Slovakia	41.49	2011
33	Armenia	40.82	2011
34	Bulgaria	35.65	2011
35	Montenegro	32.22	2011
36	Georgia	30.78	2011
37	Lithuania	30.69	2011
38	Moldova	27.24	2011
39	Serbia	24.8	2011
40	Malta	21.6	2011
41	Azerbaijan	21.04	2011
42	Republic of Macedonia	17.59	2011
43	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.2	2011
44	Cyprus	3.62	2010
45	Albania	0.951	2011

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